’ ‘I see now how it was that Marthe knew of the secret passage,’ Melusine said. All the initial confidence in herself was gone; her courage was merely a shell to hide the lack. “I’m not so sure. She came in while he was still in the throes, conviction battling with commonsense, his own apprehension. ” The girl on the lounge drew a long sobbing breath. The image in the glass was not clear, for the light was not bright enough to see properly, but the shadows of her riding habit and the hat with its waving plumes framed a countenance that gazed serenely back at her out of long-lashed blue eyes. She silently willed him to stop his pacing, to calm down. “I lied, as I would have committed a murder, or done any evil deed sooner than lose you. Her tone should have warned him, but he was too much in earnest to regard it. “What have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism, crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline or respect for authority to cover me!” It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. ’ She thrust him into the aperture, and pushed the hilt of the sword into his hand. ’ ‘Yes, but I’m hanged if I see what your game is. ’ He took his seat next to her, waving the fulminating captain towards the tray. That is why I would not marry this man whom I did and whom I do care for a little. He was in a curious state of desperation.
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